ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

XML.status Property

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Description

The sendAndLoad() method serializes xmlDoc into a string of XML source code and sends

that string to a script or application that resides at

url. The specified xmlDoc must be the

top-level node in an XML object hierarchy (i.e., an instance of the XML class, not the

XMLnode class).

The receiving script or application at

url is expected to process the XML in some way and

send an XML document back as a response. The response document is caught by Flash,

parsed, converted into an XML object hierarchy, and placed in

resultXML. Any previous

contents of

resultXML are replaced by the newly loaded XML content. See XML.send() for

important information about sending XML to a server. Note that unlike send(),

sendAndLoad() sends

xmlDoc using a POST request in both the browser and Standalone

versions of Flash Player 6. However, in the Standalone Flash Player 5 on Windows,

sendAndLoad() uses the GET method. See Appendix F for details on support for GET and

POST.

Usage

Before accessing content imported with sendAndLoad(), we must be sure that the loading

and parsing operations are complete. To do so, we either check the value of

resultXML’s

loaded property or we assign resultXML an onLoad() event handler to respond to the load

completion. See ...